Lindfield
After fighting new housing, this Sydney council just voted for more
A north shore council is paving the way for a high-rise housing boom after voting on a contentious rezoning plan it claims will protect heritage and save residential streets from “overdevelopment”.
- David Barwell
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Investors beat first home buyers to $1.68m Lindfield sub-penthouse
Two parties registered for the spacious luxury home with a rental return of $1300 a week and south-facing leafy views.
- Carmen Forward
The great divide over this north shore council’s housing plan
There was only one item on the agenda at Ku-ring-gai Council’s extraordinary meeting on Monday, yet it was hours before councillors could debate it.
- Frances Howe
This Sydney council has fought TODs all the way. Now it has revealed its own plan
Ku-ring-gai’s plans have been revealed months after the council took the state government to court in an attempt to block more intensive development.
- Megan Gorrey
This north shore school catchment shake-up blindsided parents. Now there’s a delay
A controversial change to the catchment zone of one of Sydney’s top-performing comprehensive schools, Killara High, has been pushed back.
- Nick Newling
It’s one of the north shore’s most prized school catchments - and it just shrank
Families pay a median price of $3.3 million to live in Killara. Now, many of them won’t get their kids into Killara High.
- Nick Newling
North shore council reaches secret deal over housing plan
Planning Minister Paul Scully accused the council of wasting ratepayers’ money to stop development in the middle of a housing crisis.
- Megan Gorrey
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- Pauline Morrissey and Lou Sweeney
The plan to squeeze 45-storey apartment buildings into Ku-ring-gai
Ku-ring-gai councillors resisted the government’s plans for high-density apartments. Now their staff have come up with their own plans.
- Anthony Segaert, Megan Gorrey and Daniel Lo Surdo
Lindfield proposal leads the race under state’s new housing reforms
“We had a joke in the office that wouldn’t it be amazing if the first [one] was in Ku-ring-gai LGA, and it was,” Planning Department deputy secretary Monica Gibson told a developers’ conference last week.
- Michael Koziol and Anthony Segaert
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